"Did you guys drive the monster in this direction?" Sean asked.
"Uh..."
The three strangers looked momentarily stunned. Clearly, they hadn't expected to run into other people here—though, to be fair, they couldn't be sure these folks were even human.
"Our teammate got snatched by that thing. We came here to try and rescue him," said the middle-aged man leading the group.
Sean pointed off to the side. "There's someone over there. But he's already dead."
The trio turned to look. In the shadows along the base of the wall, they spotted a body—what was left of one, anyway. The corpse had been badly corroded, the skin sloughed off, exposing stark white bone. It was a gruesome sight.
One of the women gasped and immediately ran over.
"Honey! Nooo... What am I supposed to do without you? Don't leave me... please..." Her sobs echoed down the dark corridor, raw and heart-wrenching.
